Built in 1925. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1992. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light is a lighthouse on Lake Erie located at the end of a breakwater near the mouth of the Grand River in the U.S. state of Ohio. Along with the Fairport Harbor Light, it is one of two lighthouses near Fairport Harbor and was built in 1925 to replace the other located within the village.”
Wikipedia article Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 75 National Register listings in Lake County · listed in 1992 · category: Structure · built in 1925 · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lake County.
National Register reference number.92000242- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
1 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light between
2002 and 2002, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 908 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light between 1864 and
1975: 654 Animalia, 135 Plantae, 100 Fungi, 10 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Doolittle, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light: 3 producers, 2 past producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Salt, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Fairport Harbor, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 waterspout, 1 flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Heavy rain and rapid snow melt led to a rapid rise in the Grand River at Painesville, which reached moderate flood stage with a crest of 13.29 feet. Rainfall reports across the basin ranged from 1.6 to 2.2 which fell mainly during the early morning hours of February 28th. Six to ten inches of heavy snow was on the ground at the onset of the rain. This snow rapidly melted as temperatures warmed into the 50s on the 28th. Up to an additional inch of water equivalent rainfall was released from the melted snow. Over 100 homes in and around Painesville had to be evacuated because of the rising flood waters. In Fairport Harbor several homes near the Grand River had flooded basements. Numerous roads across the county were flooded.
At least ten waterspouts were observed on Lake Erie just north of Fairport Harbor. Several of the waterspouts made it to shore, but then quickly dissipated. No damage occurred.
2 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
2,272 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Significant Dates Cultural Affiliation Significant Person State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. pierhead of the west breakwall (since extended northward), the light continues to play a vital role in the safe navigation of both commercial and recreational vessels. river, was designed by Jonathan Goldsmith, well-known architect of Ohio's railroads, but after 1877, when Fairport was connected by railway with the steel mills of Youngstown and Pittsburgh, the small harbor was transformed into a busy transshipment point for iron ore and coal.
plant of Diamond Alkali (later Diamond Shamrock) Company, a heavy importer salt underlaying its site, further increased harbor traffic.
X] See continuation sheet Transportation 1920-25 Architect/Builder construction of a new combination light and fog signal station on the west of Michigan limestone and exporter of sodium products manufactured from the In 1917 the U.S.Bureau of Lighthouses appropriated $42,000 for the early 1900s resulted in the creation of an outer harbor approximately7,600 Beginning in the 1820's, Fairport served as a fueling station and supply The Fairport Harbor West Breakwater between 1921 and tower with its red stands out in high relief against Lake Erie, The conical brick on high ground on the east bank of the [X locally Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) Period of Significance marks the entrance to the Grand River at Fairport Harbor, an important lake commerce of the harbor, which consisted primarily of the forwarding trade, feet long by 2,000 feet wide, in addition to the lower 1} miles of the improvement of aids to navigation at Fairport Harbor, including statewide nationally Government construction of breakwaters in the depot for steamboats.A lighthouse was first established here in 1825.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 92000242, 19 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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